These result in ~33,000 deaths a year, roughly half of which are drivers (these are official NHTSA statistics).

In this sharply divided country, there surely is also strong disagreement about the extent to which government ought to be protecting citizens from self-harm. But I presume that a broad spectrum of the public on both sides of the aisle would agree there is an appropriate government role in protecting citizens from being harmed by one another. So if we leave aside self-inflicted deaths, the average car is 1.8 times as risky as the average gun. That is, my owning a car is 80 percent more likely to result in the death of another person than my owning a gun. In light of this simple fact, it is puzzling why gun ownership is so vehemently scorned on the left as somehow being a flagrantly irresponsible act.

Clearly, I don't see gun grabbers going after regulating cars in such a manner as they do guns. It's probably because their gas guzzeling, environmentally polluting SUVs would be off the market and they can't have that.

The reality is that the more people learn about gun safety and how to use their weapon, the safer people are, not the more endangered they are. One does wonder when people will be more cautious using their cars though, right?

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